TOKYO (AP) — Popular twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to return to their homeland in China in late January, officials said Monday, leaving Japan without a panda for the first time in about half a century. Prospects for their replacement are not favorable either as ties between the two countries have deteriorated….
GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The opening ceremony of the 2025 Greater Bay Area Science Forum was held in Guangzhou on December 7. Under the theme “Industry Research Integration Drives Smart Innovation in the GBA”, the forum is set to forge an innovation ecosystem with extensive government-industry-academia-research-user collaboration while charting practical courses…
HONG KONG (AP) — An unmanned, oval-shaped craft from flying taxi maker EHang hovers, whirring noisily like a mini-helicopter over a riverside innovation zone on the outskirts of the southern Chinese business hub of Guangzhou, part of a trial of a mini-flying taxi that once might have been found only in sci-fi films. In nearby…
“White nose syndrome” killing millions of bats in North America – CBS News Watch CBS News A deadly fungal disease called “white nose syndrome” is sweeping across North America, wiping out millions of bats. Dave Malkoff goes underground in North Carolina as scientists race to save these vital creatures. Source link
FILE – Journalists film Chinese astronauts for the upcoming Shenzhou 20 mission, from left, Wang Jie, captain Chen Dong and Chen Zhongrui wave at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, file) The Associated Press Source link
The image of 3I/ATLAS interstellar object taken by Tianwen-1 orbiter’s high-resolution camera from a distance of about 28.96 million kilometers on Oct. 3th, 2025. Credit: CNSA The interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS just flew past Mars, and China’s Tianwen-1 mission managed to snap some pics with its high-resolution camera. According to the China National Space…
The Ceres-1 Y7 carrier rocket, shown in August 2023 carrying seven satellites, including the Xiguang-1 01, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. On Sunday, the 62-foot-tall rocket launched from the same site at 11:02 p.m. EST. Photo by Wang Jiangbo/EPA Nov. 10 (UPI) — A rocket by a private Chinese…
James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to his former research lab. He was 97. The breakthrough — made when the brash, Chicago-born Watson was just 24 — turned him into a…
Cambridge, Massachusetts — At Harvard, a team of researchers is studying the axolotl, the salamander with the superpower to regrow body parts. “And we want to find out the secrets, like, the actual, molecular secrets of how they regenerate limbs,” Jessica Whited, an assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at the Harvard Stem…
The last monkey on the loose among several that escaped after a truck carrying them overturned on a Mississippi roadway has been found and captured, authorities said Thursday. A resident who lives near the crash site called authorities to report the animal’s location, and it was then “successfully recovered,” the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries,…